ABSTRACT
In this essay we examine the notions of language contact phenomena such as borrowing, codeswitching, codemixing, codemeshing, and translanguaging. We also explore the concepts of translingualism and translingual literacies. We discuss how the notions of bilingualism and multilingualism are differentiated from translingualism and translingual literacies, and how these concepts came into existence according to different theoretical positions. We also introduce the contents of the other articles included in this special issue, and highlight their key points, framing them in the context of research on translingual literacies. The following six areas from around the world are covered: (1) negotiating voice in translingual literacies, (2) Amerindian and translingual literacies, (3) translingual and transcultural practice in a rural classroom, (4) translingual and transcultural navigation among immigrant children and youth, (5) créolisation and the new cosmopolitanism, and (6) translingual practice among African immigrants in the USA. Last but not least, we include two book reviews related to translingual literacies, and we also provide some conclusions on the topics discussed, as well as some suggestions for further directions in future research.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank several people who made this volume possible. First, we are profoundly indebted to the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (JMMD) editor John Edwards, and to the production team for helping us to make this project happen. We also express our deepest gratitude to the authors for their singular and innovative contributions and for their invaluable comments and suggestions for the introduction of this volume. Last but not least, our heartfelt thanks also go to the reviewers for their detailed and rigorous comments, which inspired a rich, insightful exchange with the authors. Without the generous assistance of all these fine people and institutions, this special issue would not be a reality.
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Notes
1 Important works on language contact phenomena include Bakker and Matras (Citation2003), Bakker and Mous (Citation1994), Clyne (Citation2003), Coronel-Molina and Rodríguez-Mondoñedo (Citation2012), Holm (Citation2000), Hicky (Citation2010), Milroy and Muysken (Citation1995), Muysken (Citation2000), Myers-Scotton (Citation2006), Raymond (Citation2010), Romaine (Citation1995), Sebba (Citation1997), Thomason and Kaufman (Citation1988), Thomason (Citation1997), Wei (Citation2000), Winford (Citation2003), and Weinreich (Citation1953/Citation1974), among others.
2 Selected references on codeswitching, codemixing, and codemeshing are Aguirre (Citation1988), Berk-Seligson (Citation1986), Bowen and Whithaus (Citation2013), Cheng and Buttler (Citation1989), De Houwer and Lanza (Citation1999), Eastman (Citation1992), Gumperz (Citation1982), Heller (Citation1988, Citation1992), Jacobson (Citation1990), Lu and Horner (Citation2013), Matsuda (Citation2014), Myers-Scotton and Jake (Citation1997), Rounsaville (Citation2014), Selfe and Horner (Citation2013), Schieffelin (Citation1993), Street, Pahl, and Rowsell (Citation2009), Tay (Citation1989), Wright, Boun, and Garcia (Citation2015), and Zentella (Citation1997), among others.
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